When people hear about other people with tax problems, they may often think that it was intentional, but those with tax problems can frequently report that it was not. A common cause of tax problems is not intent but complexity! There are thousands of pages of IRS tax documentation and the IRS themselves require an [...]Read Full Article →

The more government tries to “help” us, they more they complicate our lives and suck up our time by filling out endless forms and submitting truckloads of paperwork. From the new healthcare bill: businesses will have to issue 1099s whenever they do more than $600 of business with another entity in a year. For the [...]Read Full Article →

Imagine that instead of paying your taxes at the end of the year, you paid them all at the beginning: Every dollar you earned went to municipal, state, and federal governments until your taxes were paid off for the year. Then, everything you earned after that was yours to keep. [...]Read Full Article →

The so-called “Great Recession” wreaked havoc on a number of economic fronts and its effects are still being felt today during tax time. Here’s the situation: Last year, people had jobs and income but not all of them had sufficient taxes taken out of their paychecks. This year, some of those [...]Read Full Article →

The Internal Revenue Service is a big organization full of people. Imperfect people. And, although they hold tax payers to a high standard, they themselves need to be held to an equally high standard of ethical responsibility when it comes to our taxes. Recently, I read about an IRS tax [...]Read Full Article →

“IRS audit“. The very words strike fear into the hearts of, well, most taxpayers. And that is exactly what one IRS employee was hoping for. But, like a boomerang, her words came back to hurt her. Here’s what happened Edith Squillace, of San Pablo, borrowed $3,750 from someone. (Documents don’t name who but we [...]Read Full Article →

Attorney Lewis B. Freeman, who is a well-known fraud investigator, forensic accountant and lawyer, has sued the IRS in an attempt to combat the $4.8 million civil penalty the IRS has slapped him with. This Miami Florida based tax lawyer and forensic accountant made a name for himself representing high net work clients. [...]Read Full Article →